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With Gaz Oakley’s fantastic alternatives to the traditional turkey and trimmings, you can enjoy delicious plant-based recipes throughout the holiday season.

Gaz talks you through the menus and the planning, from Christmas breakfast through to show-stopping lunches with the likes of Cauliflower Wellington, Slow-roasted Mushroom Fillet, Festive Nut Roast Wreath, or the perfect Thanksgiving centrepiece Pumpkin Mac and Cheese. And these are all rounded off with spectacular dairy-free puds, including boozy Tiramisu and Crème Brûlée Tartlets. And it’s not just about the big celebrations: Gaz offers ideas for delicious leftovers, including the Ultimate Christmas Burger, as well as classics such as Bubble & Squeak Patties.

Packed with ideas and inspiration, Plants Only Holidays offers fresh and flavoursome vegan dishes perfect for the festive table.

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Blazed Wax is a comprehensive and colourful guide to contemporary candle making from friends and designers Ruby Kannava and Emma Cutri, with twenty-five projects for beautiful candles and candleholders that will light up your life.

Candle making is an ancient craft, but modern candle making is all about incredible shapes and surprising colour combinations. This book brings together everything you need to start making your own sculptural candles at home – from mould-making using everyday items like fruit and vases, to dip-dyed candle-pouring, or even making fun twisted candles from supermarket candles. Including twenty-five projects for candles and candle holders, with easy instructions, step-by-step photography and guides to materials, scents, safety and styling, Blazed Wax will have you creating in no time.

Beautiful candles are a surprisingly easy art to try at home, the possibilities are endless, and you can always melt your creation down and start again! These unique candles bring warmth and ambience to your home, are perfect for celebrations and gifts, and will become the centrepiece of any dinner table or relaxing ritual. There's something innately magical about how a burning candle brings people together, and Blazed Wax will help you to capture some of that magic in your own hand-made candles.

Simply Living Well is a beautiful guide to living well, sustainably. Author Julia Watkins, of the popular Instagram account @simply.living.well, shares rituals, recipes, and projects for living sustainably, inspired by both wisdom rooted in traditional cultures and her own grandparents.

With step-by-step guidelines, gorgeous photography, and easy, comprehensive recipes for everyday use, Simple Living Well is about reducing our footprint for the generations to come.

Simply Living Well covers every area of your household — kitchen, cleaning, wellness, bath, and garden, showing you how to eliminate wasteful packaging, harmful ingredients, and disposable items.

Practical checklists outline easy swaps (instead of disposable sponges, opt for biodegradable sponges or Swedish dishcloths; choose a bamboo toothbrush over a plastic one) and sustainable upgrades for common household tools and products. Projects include scrap apple cider vinegar, wool dryer balls, kitchen bowl covers and cloth produce bags, non-toxic dryer sheets, all-purpose citrus cleaner, herbal tinctures and balms, and more, plus recipes for package-free essentials like homemade nut milk, hummus, ketchup, salad dressings, and veggie stock.

With a clean, inviting aesthetic, Simply Living Well invites you to transform your daily life to move away from harsh chemicals, plastics and wasteful practices. Live simply – well.

All the practical baking knowledge you need from Sunday Times bestselling author and Great British Bake Off winner Nancy Birtwhistle, with this green edition of her first ever cookbook.

Whether you’re a star baker or rarely set foot in the kitchen, Sizzle & Drizzle is packed with over 100 delicious and easy recipes, from failsafe cakes and bakes to show-stopping desserts and more. Want to learn more about making different kinds of pastry? Or perhaps you’ve always wanted to try your hand at preserving food? Looking for some free-from options? Nancy has you covered.

In true Nancy style, Sizzle & Drizzle is brimming with top tips for cooking, budget-friendly hacks and even includes QR codes linking to videos of Nancy making the dishes.

15-Minute Vegan features 100 brand new vegan recipes that can be prepared in mere moments.

Using ingredients that are available in supermarkets, the recipes are as easy as can be - from shopping to cooking to serving. The book starts with Katy's introduction to vegan cooking and cooking, with advice on the equipment you need to make your cooking go faster, plus essential storecupboard ingredients.

In chapters covering Breakfast, Light Bites, Mains, Essentials and Sweet Stuff, Katy offers 100 straightforward recipes and tips about preparation, freezing and storing. Whether you're already eating vegan or just want to try something new, nothing could be simpler and faster than 15-Minute Vegan.

The Coastal Café Guide (new for 2024) is the ideal travel and café guide for anyone who loves food and loves the coast (please see our delivery note below).

The Coastal Café Guide has featured in The Times Weekend, The Sun, and The Scotsman. It’s the perfect gift for beach lovers, coast-path walkers, surfers, paddle-boarders, seafood fans, water sports enthusiasts, holidaymakers, and those travelling with families and dogs. It’s from Printslinger, publisher of 2023’s Amazon #1 bestseller, The Extra Mile: Delicious Alternatives to Motorway Services (4th ed). Inside The Coastal Café Guide, find:

• Around 150 cafés, restaurants, beach bars, seafood cabins, and pubs, on or near the coast
• Dog-friendly and family-friendly places to eat, often with a sea view
• 10 striking regional maps
• Independent, smaller places to eat
• Features on a dozen marine- and coast-relevant charities including Surfers Against Sewage
• Low food miles, local food places to help you support local food businesses
• 256pp pages with full-colour photography throughout
• Places in England, Scotland and Wales (inc. Isles of Scilly, Isle of Wight, Isle of Man, Isle of Skye)

This new 2024 guide is a carbon-neutral certified book with a foreword from the RNLI. The Coastal Café Guide also highlights the work of 12 coast and marine-focused charities and organisations. These include the RNLI, Surfers Against Sewage, Ramblers (and the England Coast Path), The Marine Conservation Society, The Marine Stewardship Council, Open Seas, The Wave Project, The John Muir Trust, National Trust for Scotland, The Outdoor Swimming Society, City to Sea and The South West Coast Path Organisation. 1% of Printslinger’s income from this book will be donated to Surfers Against Sewage via Work for Good.

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Motorway services are boring – motorways are boring – but they’re a necessary and convenient evil when you need to break the journey, especially when travelling with kids and pets. Enter The Extra Mile, here to steer you away from mediocre, expensive motorway service stations and garage forecourt food and into the arms of the UK’s best farm shops, independent cafes, and cosy pubs, all within striking distance of motorway junctions and main A roads.

Why go the Extra Mile? After yet another in a long line of bland ‘lattes’ and limp sandwiches next to the thundering motorway, we asked ourselves if there wasn’t another way. In rejection of soulless, expensive services, we set out to celebrate local alternatives, uncovering places that offer impeccable local food – some direct from the field – space for children and pets to let off steam, and beautiful surroundings. 

The Extra Mile offers a dependable list of independent and brilliant outlets, gorgeous countryside and delicious food worthy of a short detour. They’re all hand-selected and no more than 15 minutes’ drive from a junction, so you can add a bit of magic to your journey while supporting local businesses. 

he Farm Shop Guide (edition 1, new for 2024) is the ideal food, travel and farm café guide for anyone who loves fresh food, farm-to-fork experiences, and farm-focused events and activities. If you love farm-fresh food and local flavours and are keen to shop seasonally and avoid flown-in food (while supporting Britain’s farmers and growers), this is the book for you. The Farm Shop Guide will help you find farm-fresh food and independent farm shops and cafés across Britain: perfect places for a weekly shop, an eat-out treat, or a family-friendly day trip. In the book you’ll find:

• First-rate farm shops, cafés and restaurants
• Farmers’ Markets and Food Festivals
• Dog-friendly and family-friendly places to stop, eat and shop
• Places with EV chargers for your vehicles
• PYO (pick-your-own) fruit, veg, flowers, Christmas trees, and pumpkin places
• Striking full-colour maps and full-page features per venue
• Spotlights on food, farming, and environmental charities including: Pasture for Life, the Sustainable Food Trust, Buglife, RSPB Fair to Nature, the Permaculture Association, Community Supported Agriculture, and the Soil Association.

To find tasty local produce and avoid bland flown-in food, buy The Farm Shop Guide today. It’s the perfect gift for your food-loving friends and anyone who likes to know where their food really comes from. The guide is from Printslinger Ltd. and the team behind 2024’s #1 Bestsellers, The Coastal Café Guide (2024) and The Extra Mile: Delicious Alternatives to Motorway Services (2023).

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How can you remove even the toughest stains? How can you make the best use of your microwave and keep meals healthy and tasty? How can you remove mould safely? Sunday Times bestselling author Great British Bake Off winner Nancy Birtwhistle is here to answer all of these questions and more, featuring 101 thoughtful, cheap and time-saving tips and tricks on how to run a budget home – all while protecting the environment.

Going green in the garden has never been easier with Nancy Birtwhistle's sustainable, eco-friendly tips that will help you make the most of your space, and what it can grow. Whether you have a sprawling garden, a modest patch of grass or just a spare windowsill, The Green Gardening Handbook has over 100 tips will help you embrace the joy of growing and eating from your own garden.

This beautifully illustrated guide is packed with advice on everything from composting, clothing and basic equipment to seasonal recipes and guides to freezing, storing and preserving that will help you save money and reduce waste. This practical book from the former Great British Bake Off winner and Sunday Times bestselling author of Clean & Green and Green Living Made Easy is for anyone, green-fingered or not, looking to discover the delights of growing and eating food they've grown themselves.

Learn to let go of your worries and lose yourself in nature with this practical guide to sketching for pleasure, not perfection.

Most of us know that creativity and time outdoors are good for our wellbeing, yet so many of us struggle to find the time or motivation to step away from our screens. But there’s a solution! Combining quick and easy exercises with the latest research on nature connection, wellbeing and creativity, The Green Sketching Handbook will inspire you to pick up a pencil and get started.

Inspired by her own journey from climate scientist who hadn't tried drawing since childhood to artist and nature lover, Dr Ali Foxon will show you how to embrace your wobbly lines, unhook from a fear of criticism and create a habit that makes you feel good, not inadequate. You will learn more about yourself and your unique relationship with nature, finding out what brings you comfort and joy. Best of all, you'll create vivid and evocative memories of all your outdoor adventures, big and small, even if you’re convinced you can’t draw.

'This book is a chance to slow down and find stillness. Self-care in the most beautiful, creative ways.' – Fearne Cotton

Fifty imaginative ideas for crafts that encourage a sense of joy and mindfulness. Includes a foreword by Melissa Hemsley.

The Joy Journal For Grown-ups invites you to experiment, play and unlock your creative potential with a range of simple crafts that can bring a little more calm into your everyday life. Using store-cupboard ingredients and easily foraged supplies, this beautifully illustrated handbook includes new and inspiring ideas for adding a personal touch to celebrations, creating unique gifts, and making stunning keepsakes.

Imaginative, engaging and easy to follow, this gorgeous, step-by-step guide features all the encouragement you need to find inspiration, awaken your creativity and brighten your mood.

Follow the story of Lucy,  a little mouse, who dreams of growing her own Christmas dinner.

Then join Lucy to start growing your own vegetables and even your very own Christmas Tree with the packet of seeds.